Geoffrey Hylton Jarrett (born 1 December 1937) is a retired Australian Roman Catholic bishop who served as bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lismore
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Lismore is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Sydney, established in 1887, initially as the Diocese of Grafton, and then changed to the current name in 1900. The diocese covers the North Coa ...
.
Formerly an Anglican priest, Jarrett converted to the Catholic Church in 1965. He was ordained a priest in Sydney on 14 May 1970 by the
Archbishop of Hobart,
Guilford Clyde Young
Sir Guilford Clyde Young KBE (10 November 1916 – 16 March 1988) was an Australian Roman Catholic clergyman.
Born at Sandgate, Queensland, he was ordained priest in Rome on 3 June 1939, after a brilliant academic career at ''Propaganda F ...
.
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
appointed him coadjutor bishop of Lismore on 9 December 2000. His episcopal consecration was performed by the
Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal
Edward Clancy, on 22 February 2001 at St Carthage's Cathedral, Lismore; his co-consecrators were
Francesco Canalini
Francesco Canalini (born 23 March 1936) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See.
Biography
Francesco Canalini was born in Osimo, Italy, on 23 March 1936. He was ordained a pr ...
,
Apostolic Nuncio
An apostolic nuncio ( la, nuntius apostolicus; also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a state or to an international org ...
in Australia and
John Satterthwaite
John Richard Satterthwaite (17 November 192523 May 2014) was an English bishop in the Church of England. He was Bishop of Gibraltar and at the same time Bishop of Fulham (the suffragan bishop charged by the Bishop of London with the oversight o ...
, Bishop of Lismore. He chose ''Supra firmam petram'' as his
motto
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.
After John Satterthwaite's resignation, he succeeded him on 1 December 2001 in the office of Bishop of Lismore and was introduced to the office on 12 December of the same year.
Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...
accepted his age-related resignation on 20 December 2016.
He was succeeded by
on 22 February 2017.
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1937 births
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Australia
Anglican priest converts to Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lismore
Living people
Roman Catholic bishops of Lismore
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